Dunstan
Archbishop of Canterbury and saint
b. 909 · d. 19 May 988
27th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 960–c. 988
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 27 · c. 960 – c. 988
Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer Osbern, himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making a picture and forming letters", as were other clergy of his age who reached senior rank.
Related people
- Oda of Canterbury consecrated by · traditional
- Byrhthelm succeeded · inferred
- Ælfheah of Canterbury consecrator of · traditional
- Oswald of Worcester consecrator of · traditional
- Æthelgar consecrator of · traditional
- Æthelwold of Winchester consecrator of · traditional
- Wulfsige consecrator of · traditional
- Ælfric I consecrator of · traditional
- Gucan consecrator of · traditional
- Æthelgar preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Glastonbury birth
- Canterbury Cathedral burial
- Canterbury death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury